Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth Bibesco
Elizabeth, Princess Bibescowas an English writer and socialite. She was the daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat. Active as a writer between 1921 and 1940, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 February 1897
punishment joy
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
forgotten
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
silence revealing reticence
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.
loss cutting gains
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.
haste pay tribute
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
ideas religion ten-commandments
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
friendship jobs dangerous
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
hygiene mind irony
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
endurance indecision form
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
people hospitality method
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
helping right-words
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
joy unexpected compare
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?
happiness joy brightness
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...
people impossible
To some people the impossible is impossible.